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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Hemyng say the theater, fireworks, low lodging houses, drinking, smoking, the music hall and blasphemy contribute?
(a) Police ineptness.
(b) Criminal behavior.
(c) An increase in prostitution.
(d) General lassitude.

2. How did she pay for her desires?
(a) Sending her younger sister to the steets.
(b) Working hard and not turning to the streets.
(c) Running a brothel on the side.
(d) Prostitution.

3. What does the author say beggars often spent considerable amounts of money buying?
(a) Costumes.
(b) Women.
(c) Wine.
(d) Lamb.

4. What is another word that Mayhew called puppeteers?
(a) Punch.
(b) Stringers.
(c) Pups.
(d) Geppettos.

5. What did the clown hide from his neighbors?
(a) That he came from a very wealthy family.
(b) Nothing.
(c) His occupation.
(d) The good money he makes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose son was the fire eater?

2. What motivated the clown to continue working?

3. What did Hemyng call a soldier who was supported by a wealthy woman?

4. How does Mayhew describe the Punch and Judy show?

5. What group did the magician join to get away from home?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the photographer's business like according to Mayhew?

2. What was an ongoing problem for the company from conductors and how did the bus companies combat that problem?

3. What was pornography and why did it become illegal in London?

4. What kind of education did many of the street folk have, what types of families did many of them come from and how did many of them start out?

5. Who did Halliday say were swindlers?

6. Who did Mayhew call street folk?

7. How are the various ways to earn a living cataloged and what types of workers existed in England?

8. Who did Tuckniss call a prostitute?

9. What was describe that was similar to modern crack houses, what were they like? What happened to the girl the author wrote about who was lured from home?

10. What did the London City Mission do?

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